Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-09-19

OD3 WOulu never nave OetO delivered Mel
rise to high political positions through
Misrepresentation and the assault Of the
public. Public abuse is all that some o
our public men have had to rely upon fol
their elevation. 1t has brought to them
what talent and executive force could never
have achieved Many of those who are
making great effort for place aid power
will never succeed just because they are
not OF enough importance to be abused.
IL is the nature Of man to gather about
those who are prosecuted and defend them,
and they are apt TO forget the faults OF
those who are the subject of attack while
attempting TO drive back the slapderers
Helen Stirk, Scotch martyr condemned
with her husband to death for Christs
sake, said to her husband: Rejoice; we
have lived together many joyful days, but
this day wherein we must die together
ought to be most joyful TO US both. There
fore will not bid you good night, for soon
we shall meet in the heavenly kingdom
By tine flash of the furnace best Christian
character is demonstrated
i l 60 into another department, and
find that those great denominations OF
Christians which have been most abused
have spread the most rapidly. No good
man was ever more vilely mistreated than
John Wesley. His followers were hooted
at and maligned and called by every de-
testable name that internal ingenuity could
invent, but the hotter the persecution the
more rapid the spread OF that denomina-
tion, until you know what a great host
they have become and what tremendous
force for God and the truth they are WELD
ing all the world over. 1t was persecu-
ton that gave Scotland to Presbyterian
ism. 1t was persecution that gave our
own land
FIRST TO CIVIL LIBERTY
and afterward to religious freedom. Yes,
/ may 60 further back and say it was per-
secution that gave the world the great sal
vation of the Gospel. The ribald mock
cry, the hungering and thirsting, the un-
just trial and ignominious death where all
the force Of hell's fury was hnrled against
the cross, was the introduction Of that
religion which is yet TO be the earth's
deliverancc from guilt and suffering,
and her everlasting enthronement
among the principalities of heaven. The
State has sometimes said to the church:
Come, let me take your hand and will
help you" What has been the result?
The church has gone back and has lost its
! estate OF holiness and has become ineffect-
i've. AT other times the State has said to
the church: 81 will crush you" What has
been the result2 After the storms have
spent their fury the church, so far from
having lost any of its force, has increased
and worth infinitely more after the as
sault than before it. The church is far
more indebted to the opposition of civil
government than to its approval The
fires Of the stake have only been the torches
which Christ held in his hand by the light
of which the church has marched TO her
present position. In the sound of racks
and implements of torture hear the rum
bling of the wheels of the Gospel chariot.
ScafOlds of martyrdom have been the
stairs by which the church has ascended.
Aqua fortis is the best test of pure gold.
Furthermore, our subject impresses us
that sins will come to exposure. Long,
long ago had these brothers sold Joseph
into Egypt. They had suppressed the
crime and it was profound secret well
k pit by the brothers. But suddenly the
secret is out. The old father hears that
his son is in Egypt, having been sold there
hy the malice OF his own brothers. How
their
CHEEKS MUST HAVE BURNED
aud their hearts sunk at the flaming out
of this suppressed crime. The smallest
iniquity has a thousand tongues and they
will blab out an exposure Saul was sent
to destroy the Canaanites, their sheep and
their oxen. But when hp got down there
among the pastures he saw some fine
thought he would steal them. He drove
them toward home but stopped to report to
the prophet how well he had executed his
commission, when in the distance the
sheep began TO bleat and the oxen to bel
low. The secret was out and Samuel said
to the blushing and cOnfounded Saul:
What means the bleating of the sheep
that hear and the lowing Of the cattle9"
Aye, my hearers, you cannot keep an in
iquity quiet. At just the wrong time the
sheep will bleat and the oxen below. |
Achan cannot steal the Babyl0nish |
garment without getting stoned TO |
death, nor Benedict Arnold hetray his |
country without having his neck stretched |
Look oyer the police arrests, these thieves
these burglars, these adulterers, these |
oounterfeiters, these highwaymen, these
asSassins They all thought they could
bury their iniquity so deep down that it |
would never come TO resurrection. But |
there was some shoe that answered TO the |
print in the sand, some false keys found in |
possession, some bloody knife that whis- |
pered of the deed, and the public indigna-
ton and the anathema Of outraged law |
hurled him into the Tombs or hoisted him |
on the gallows. At the close Of the battle |
between the Dauphin of France and the
Helvetiaus, Rurclsra sionk was 80 elated |
witS thl viotory that he lifted his helmet |
10 look off upon the field, when wounded |
soldier hurled stone that struck his IN |
covered forehead and he fel!, ain will |
always
LEAys s0siE POINT EXPOSED,
and there ia no safety in iniquity. Francis
the First, King Of France, was discussing |
how it was best TO get his army into Italy. ,
Amaril, the court fool, spranS Out from
the corner and said TO the king and his
staff officers: You had better be think |
ing how you will get your army back ont |
Italy after once you have entered" In !.
other words, it is easier for US to. &c. INTO |
sin than to get out Of it. Whitefield was
riding on horseback in a lonely way with
some missionary money in a sack fastened
to the saddle bags. A highwayman sprang |
out from the thicket and put his hand ont |
toward the gold, when White6sld tsTned |
npon him and said. ''lAat belongs to the
Lord Jesus Christ, touch it if you dare"
and the villain fell back empty handed
into the thcket. o, the power Of cons%c.. /,
ence. If offended, it becomes Gods ayeDg-
ing minister. DO not think that you
can hide any great and prOtracted
ain in your hearts In an unguardcd mo-
ment it will slip off of the lip, o. sSEs
slight occasion may for a moGiens set ajar
this door this aooS OF nell that you wanted
70 keep closed But suppose that ia this
life you hide it, and you get along with
that transgressiun burning in your heart a.
ship on fire within for days may hinder